Abstract:
The need to go beyond economic rehabilitation of commercial sex
workers is a must if Sokoto State will thrive in its efforts towards
rehabilitation of commercial sex workers. It is against this backdrop
that this paperjustifies the need for rehabilitation of commercial sex
workers and undertakes a programme analysis of existing
rehabilitation interventions focusing on whether or not they can assist
commercial sex workers to achieve rehabilitation. ft posits that a nonformal
education rehabilitation has capacity to deliver effective and
relevant rehabilitation intervention/or commercial sex workers. The
paper concludes that to help reform and rehabilitate sex workers
interventions must be comprehensive to address the multipurpose
needs that sex work has su~jected sex workers to. The paper
recommends among others that adult and non-formal educators
should experiment this intervention with a small group of sex workers
with the view to reporting its efficacy in the rehabilitation exercise
and that advocacy for creating awareness and promotion of nonformal
education rehabilitation paradigm should be championed by
adult educators through writing, sensitisation, workshops for
rehabilitation stakeholders (government and NGOs, social welfares,
religious bodies, etc,) to popularize the paradigm
